Abstract
The paper presents paradigmatic differences between secular and Islamic worldviews in related to understanding of human nature and human development. It outlines the Tawhīdī paradigm with its ontology, epistemology, anthropology, and teleology to establish a framework for Islamic HDI. The paradigmatic approach and Tawhīdī anthropology are both unique way of defining and measuring human development. The paper also defines key elements of human development and suggests proxy variables in constructing a new index with those variables.
This conceptual paper was empirically tested for ten Muslim countries in another paper by the author. That study measured Islamic HDI for those countries and compared with their score of conventional HDI. The rankings in the Islamic HDI for all Muslim countries except two differed from those in the conventional HDI (Aydin 2017).
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Aydin, Necati (2014): “Luxury Consumption and Role of IBF in the GCC,” The paper will be published in an edited book on Islamic Economics and Finance in GCC by Gerlach Press.
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Ibid., 270.
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Ibid., 356.
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Nursi, The Words, 341.
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Hofstede Ranking Individualistic versus collectivistic cultures: http://geert-hofstede.com/dimensions.html; http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-cultural-dimensions/individualism/.
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Aydin, N. (2019). Paradigmatic and Conceptual Framework for Islamic HDI. In: Ali, S. (eds) Towards a Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah Index of Socio-Economic Development. Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12793-0_11
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